"Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy." — William Hazlitt
"Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy."
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William Hazlitt
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493 Quotes by William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt has 493 quotes on this site.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund…
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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More Blasphemy Quotes
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and…
— Annie Besant
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
— Annie Besant
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is…
— Mark Twain
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Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a…
— Martin Luther
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I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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